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Simon Johnston
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 25/11/2024 : 23:29:56
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For those of us in the UK of a certain age, Fyfe Robertson was the BBC. This - https://youtu.be/JxM8vxS_yLs?si=y9uJvL62WEvzpsCy - from almost fifty years ago (when a Rolls Royce Camargue cost £29,250!) is his take on the motor car. Delightful.
Simon J
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P.S. The registration number of his Mini is now on a Bentley. |
Edited by - Simon Johnston on 25/11/2024 23:32:09 |
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Westbury
United Kingdom
2150 Posts |
Posted - 26/11/2024 : 00:03:05
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Well, I don’t know, really!
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Simon Johnston
United Kingdom
6355 Posts |
Posted - 26/11/2024 : 06:49:11
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Oz34
United Kingdom
2635 Posts |
Posted - 26/11/2024 : 11:19:17
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"This Fyfe Robertson reporting from a farm in....er, this is Fyfe Robertson returning you to the studio!"
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Westbury
United Kingdom
2150 Posts |
Posted - 26/11/2024 : 12:31:42
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“I’m standing here!”
(What a character he was.)
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Simon Johnston
United Kingdom
6355 Posts |
Posted - 26/11/2024 : 12:49:09
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“I’m speaking to you now ,,,”
This thread must be incomprehensible to those who didn’t watch BBC television in the 1970s!
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coracle
United Kingdom
2102 Posts |
Posted - 26/11/2024 : 12:59:00
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| Being in colour and featuring a lot of modern cars, I found it all a bit "new fangled." |
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DK6780
United Kingdom
354 Posts |
Posted - 26/11/2024 : 13:12:10
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Is it bad that I find him far more intelligible than the majority of today's presenters?  |
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Westbury
United Kingdom
2150 Posts |
Posted - 26/11/2024 : 14:44:52
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His ‘type’ would be unemployable in the media today, Duncan.
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Simon Johnston
United Kingdom
6355 Posts |
Posted - 26/11/2024 : 15:14:12
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Just as presenters from the 1940s and 50s would have been unemployable in the 1970s - plus ça change!
Simon J
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Teifion
United Kingdom
168 Posts |
Posted - 26/11/2024 : 18:31:19
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Loved Fyfe's films growing up..
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George Eagle
United Kingdom
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Posted - 27/11/2024 : 09:56:35
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I am of that certain age and remember his broad accent!
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phj1308
United Kingdom
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Posted - 27/11/2024 : 11:16:15
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He used to be on the 'Tonight' programme with Cliff Michelmore didn't he?
Along with other stalwarts like Derek Hart and Geoffrey Johnson Smith with Cy Grant doing the odd Calypso.
Great times!
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Cooperman
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28/11/2024 : 14:30:35
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Geoffrey Johnson Smith, my goodness blast from the past. I wrote to him when he was my MP when I lived in Forest Row just down the A22 from East Grinstead, I was compiling about my inability to afford a house in that area, they all cost over £5,000!!! I did get a reply which I still have somewhere in my archives.
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Rob Bell
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28/11/2024 : 15:13:30
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| I was only 4 years old when this was made! Fyfe is an interesting character - but oh boy, was that a bit of a ramble. I watched it from start to finish, loving every minute, but wondering where this was going... quite a few accurate predictions of motoring life 50 years later! |
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Simon
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28/11/2024 : 16:42:00
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| That certainly brought back some memories. Noted most of the HGV's were Brits: Bedford, Albion, Scammel, Atkinson, Foden, ERF, and so on. Just the odd Mercedes. He must have been then in his seventies. The first advert was strange and had to be quickly moved on! Simon C. |
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Who remembers Fyfe Robertson?
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